This is Rumbull Strip, Vermont. I'm Erica Heilman.

I am standing in front of the wood stove and I'm keeping my backside warm.

I love that. And I got my little little I call it my clicker so I can watch my TV and

stand here and keep my bag and I rotate it once a while I love rotating around and around and then I turn from side to side and then I look at the clock

I might go get a drink of water, and I come back to the wood stove.

I love that wood stove. We're finding kindling where we can. A lot of us are burning Greenwood by now or any wood we can. This is a show for all of us in the hinterlands who are still

living by our wood stoves.

It's two long pieces, an inch and a half, in diameter.

Four bald up pieces of seven days in the middle.

Two half pieces, Cross, cross wise.

So you're making, kind, so your method is kind of the cross hatch.

You're making a very loose log cabin.

Okay.

Right. And then for Arstow, which is small. loose log cabin. Okay.

And then for Arstow, which is small, two pieces that are nice and dry and big enough to incite

ignition, but not so big that they won't fit on top of this structure that I've created.

And going out to the shed and constructing this kit at this time of year every day is really that's the problem.

I don't want to do it anymore. I want I want a break and I'm not getting a break this year.

And like some days like 2 a.m. rules around I forget oh damn it I didn't make a kit you know so you go out

splitting your half length it depends on the stove certainly and you've got to make sure you've got enough air going into the stove and

air to be able to go up the chimney

so usually there's a damper on the stove and

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